Post #274691 by Humuhumu on Sat, Dec 23, 2006 11:33 AM

A quick update on our situation:

We've now had one entire day without the server going down, which is a nice bit of light at the end of the tunnel. In order to troubleshoot the problem (and in order to bring the server up right away when it goes down, to minimize impact on you fine folks), we have had to pretty closely monitor activity on our sites. It's been a pretty big crimp in our style; I'm really looking forward to getting back to doing more normal computer-y things, and being able to be away from the computer for a day would be neat, too.

Several theories have been formed, and several different steps have been taken to shore up our server's defenses against the spammy evildoers. Finally, it's now starting to look like we've got a breakthrough (knock on nicely carved wood). Hopefully, our luck will hold, and our server will be healthy. If our theories have been correct, we should be in good shape; if not, it's back to the drawing board yet again.

Thanks for hanging in there!